Bea Carson, ED.D.

Past President & Affiliate Director

Master Coach
A co-founder of WIAL, Bea has led the Institute’s efforts to develop methods and standards for training Action Learning Team Coaches. In addition to her contributions to WIAL, Dr. Carson is President of her own consulting firm, Carson Consultants, which is devoted to providing Action Learning coaching and consulting to organizations in both the private and public sectors.
Although she began her career in technology, Dr. Carson’s interest in psychology, groups, and teams has been a lifelong avocation. She made a mid-career change, receiving her doctorate in Education and Organizational Learning from George Washington University.

Dr. Carson has consulted with government, non-profit, and commercial organizations throughout the United States including Constellation Energy, Triplex, NASA, Rotary International, and Special Olympics Maryland. She has been an invited lecturer at American University and the George Washington University.

Dr. Carson is also a member of the Rotary Club of Annapolis Board; and past board member for Maryland Special Olympics and the Monarch Academy.

Dr. Carson’s publications include:

Carson, B. “The Role of Failure in Learning,” Chief Learning Officer, January 2010

Carson, B. “The Role of Curiosity in Learning,” Chief Learning Officer, November 2009

Our Services

WIAL Thailand offers the WIAL-approved standard programs Foundations of Action Learning, Certified Action Learning Coach, Leading with Questions and Building the Learning Organization as public or in-house programs, in Thai or English. In addition, we design customized programs based on Action Learning taking the client’s particular context and needs into account.

WIAL Thailand also offers the support of highly qualified Action Learning coaches for organizations that want to support a particular team over a number of sessions to get in a short time the benefits of Action Learning.